Gogo video stream onboard American, Delta flights

ITASCA — Airline Wi-Fi provider Gogo said its new streaming video product, Gogo Vision, is onboard American Airlines’ entire fleet of 15 Boeing 767-200 aircraft, as well as select Delta Air Lines flights.

The entertainment system is powered by New York-based Kaltura Inc.’s open source video technology.

“We selected Kaltura and its flexible technology to orchestrate a unique video viewing experience designed to further enhance passengers’ time in the air,” said Niels Steenstrup, vice president, product and platforms at Gogo. “We leveraged Kaltura’s existing capabilities, tweaked the platform to fit our specific needs and ultimately enjoyed low implementation costs, a short time to market, and advanced technology.”

Kaltura developed a custom solution that uses an on-premise version of the Kaltura software, installed on the airplane alongside Gogo’s receiver and router. Kaltura stores the entire video catalog in encrypted form and serves the video over the plane’s Wi-Fi network. Gogo’s ATG Network is used only for the purchase and DRM license transaction.

As a result, passengers can browse, select, and view premium video content from their own laptops and devices.

“Kaltura’s open source video platform is ideally suited for customers like Gogo that require custom workflows, tight integration, and/or an on-premise deployment,” said Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura chairman and CEO. “With hundreds of publicly available APIs, over 20,000 active community members, and over 150,000 downloads to-date, Kaltura is the web’s leading ‘factory for building video apps.’

“We are the only provider to offer both an extensible framework to build and deploy a wide range of video solutions and applications, allowing businesses across all industries to create value with video that supports their corporate goals, as well as an out-of-the-box SaaS video and rich-management platform for straightforward OVP deployments,” he added.